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Masque Punu de la danse Okuyi
Raffinement des masques africains blancs du Gabon
Jeu d'oppositions de formes, de matières et de couleurs pour ce masque africain qui arbore les traits délicats caractéristiques des masques Punu de la danse Okuyi, relevés, sur le front, du motif associé aux scarifications tribales en neuf écailles. Une large garniture sophistiquée, composée de cauris, d'osier et de colliers de perles colorées auréole le visage sur certaines créations. Ces coiffures se déclinant sous différentes formes illustrent la mode féminine au cours du XIXème siècle au Gabon. 
Les masques okuyi étaient exhibés durant des rituels aux origines très anciennes au cours desquels des danseurs montés sur des échasses s'agitaient dans le but d'invoquer l'esprit d'un défunt à l'aide d'un masque représentant une belle jeune femme. 
Ces rituels se déroulaient au cours des funérailles de notables, de femmes ayant donné naissance à des jumelles ou étant elles-mêmes jumelles mais aussi à l'occasion de la naissance de jumeaux. 
 
Hauteur 35 cm
largeurs 19 cm


Good condition - used with small signs of aging & blemishes

Mask - Gabon - Punu  (No reserve price)

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Fossil tooth

Fossilised animal

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Fossil skull

Fossil skeleton

Fossilised plant

Fossil matrix

Fossilised shell

Raw mineral

Fossil fragment

Taxidermy replica mount

Fossil plate matrix

Fossil teeth

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Fossilised jaw

Fossil vertebra bone

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Material

Silver

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Gender

Women

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Condition

Natural

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Composed

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Good condition

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Extras

in sealed box

Period

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Jurassic, Upper (163.5 - 145 million years)

Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Quaternary (2.58 - 0 million years)

Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 million years)

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

Devonian, Lower (419.2 - 393.3 million years)

Paleogene (66 - 23.03 million years)

Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

Cenozoic (66 - 0 million years)

Quaternary, Holocene (0.0117 - 0 million years)

Paleogene, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.03 million years)

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Coral

Blood Coral

Natural Pearl

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Pearl

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No laboratory report

Faceted cut

Baroque

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Exact colour

White

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Freeform

Geode

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After 2000

Before 1400

1900-2000

Size on item

54 (EU) / 14 (IT) / 6 ¾ (US)

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55 (EU) / 15 (IT) / 7 ¼ (US)

57 (EU) / 17 (IT) / 8 (US)

50 (EU) / 10 (IT) / 5 ¼ (US)

Pearl surface quality

Clean

Pearl luster

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Megalodon

Ammonite

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Mosasaur

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